On Wednesday last week, the University of Windsor Jewish Students Association (JSA), an Emet for Israel supported organization, brought Ishmael Khaldi, an Israeli Bedouin diplomat, to campus to speak about Bedouin and minority rights in Israel. This provided an excellent opportunity to open up a respectful dialogue about the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is sorely...
Canadian Jews: Make Your Pro-Israel Voice Heard in Every Political Party
As the Canadian federal election approaches, Canadian Jews are faced with a serious dilemma. While Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative party have consistently voiced strong support for Israel and have backed up this rhetoric in their voting pattern at the UN, the Liberals and NDP have taken more...
The Israeli Genocide Myth
This piece was contributed by our Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Windsor, Trevor Sher. It is a follow up to this piece, and was originally published in the Times of Israel. It is reproduced in full below. In the first part of this article I discussed the myth spread...
Our New Emet Group Publishes: The Apartheid Myth
This piece was contributed by our Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Windsor, Trevor Sher. It was originally published in the Times of Israel, and is reproduced in full below. As Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) sweeps university campuses across Canada, well-intentioned students who want to make a positive...
Success with Elliot Chodoff at the University of Windsor
This piece was contributed by our Emet for Israel Liaison at the University of Windsor, Trevor Sher! We are so proud of UWJSA and Trevor! The University of Windsor Jewish Students Association was privileged to be able to bring guest speaker Elliot Chodoff to campus on January 19th to talk...
Bedouin Israeli diplomat’s speech at U. Windsor disrupted, but he’s not upset
Recently Ishmael Khaldi spoke at the University of Windsor and despite the fact that he was “shouted down” by anti-Israel protestors, other students at the university listened to his message and understood its importance. Ishmael Khaldi is an Israeli diplomat, currently assigned to the Israeli Embassy in London, and formerly at...